Minimum Wage – Ecuador
Sectoral Commission
- Valid on September 2026
- The amounts are in US Dollar ($).
Unified Basic Salary
Minimum wage with effect from January 1, 2026
$482.00
Per month
- Agriculture and plantations
- Car repair and maintenance workshops, automotive assembly, manufacturing of parts and bodies, commercialization of vehicles, automotive, bodies, and parts
- Community activities
- Construction and architectural technical services, operators of heavy equipment: road, excavation, construction, industry and other
- Electricity, gas and water
- Financial services
- Fishing, aquaculture and mariculture
- Food processing (includes agro-industry)
- Health activities: hospitals, sanatoriums, clinics, laboratories and social assistance institutions
- Industrial production of beverages and tobacco
- Industrial, pharmaceutical and chemical products
- Metalworking
- Mining quarries and deposits
- Production of poultry, livestock and other animal species, services related to livestock production
- Service-type activities
- Storage and logistics transport
- Teaching
- Technology: hardware and software (includes ICT)
- Textile products, leather and footwear
- Tourism and catering
- Wholesale and retail trade, retail fuel sales
Minimum Wage Profiles by Country
Detailed country information on minimum wage policies, legislation, and institutional frameworks.
- Ecuador has a statutory minimum wageyes
- Ecuador has a single minimum wage rate applicable to the entire dependent workforceno
- Ecuador has multiple minimum wage rates, jointly applicable to the entire dependent workforceno
- Ecuador defines most minimum wage rates by geographical areasno
- Ecuador defines most minimum wage rates by job rolesyes
- Ecuador defines most minimum wage rates by industriesyes
- Ecuador defines most minimum wage rates by workers' skill levelsno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for Economic Processing Zones (EPZ) or similarno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for youth age groupsno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for small firmsno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for domestic workersno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for agricultural workersyes
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates for piece rate workersyes
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates as net ratesno
- Ecuador has on average adjusted minimum wage rates at least once per year since 2020no
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates per hourno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates per weekno
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates per monthyes
- Ecuador defines minimum wage rates per yearno
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